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Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Have Different Expectations Than Their DoctorsA new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that doctors who treat patients with kidney failure are reluctant to discuss a difficult prognosis, and their patients are likely to have distorted expectations about their own probable outcomes. |
Embargo expired: 5/27/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/23/2013 10:00 AM EDT
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
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Heart Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Kidney Disease Patients’ Risk of Kidney Failure• Compared with kidney disease patients who had zero or one heart healthy lifestyle component in the ideal range, those with two, three, and four ideal factors had progressively lower risks for kidney failure over four years. • No kidney disease patients with five to seven ideal factors developed kidney failure. • Patients’ risk of dying during the study followed a similar trend |
Embargo expired: 5/23/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/17/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Living a Heart Healthy Lifestyle Can Lower Kidney Failure RiskNew research from the UAB School of Public Health shows that patients with chronic kidney disease may improve their health by making lifestyle behavior changes. |
Released: 5/23/2013 1:00 PM EDT
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
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LDL Cholesterol Is a Poor Marker of Heart Health in Patients with Kidney Disease• Among patients with chronic kidney disease, those with very low kidney function had a higher risk of having a heart attack than those with higher kidney function over a four-year period. • The link between higher LDL cholesterol and heart attack risk was weaker for patients with very low kidney function than for patients with higher kidney function. 60 million people globally have chronic kidney disease. |
Embargo expired: 5/16/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/10/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Drama Therapy Improves Mood, Reduces Pain During Hemodialysis
Researchers are the first to discover that dramatic creativity can help people with failing kidneys. |
Released: 5/14/2013 9:05 AM EDT
Kansas State University |
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Phosphate-Binding Drug Does Not Improve Heart Health of Patients with Mild Kidney Disease• The phosphate binder sevelamer carbonate did not improve cardiovascular measures in patients with early chronic kidney disease. • For now, reducing dietary intake of phosphate may be the best way for these patients to reduce the mineral’s negative effects on the heart. High phosphate levels—in kidney disease patients and in the general population—increase the risk of dying from cardiovascular causes. |
Embargo expired: 4/18/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 4/12/2013 8:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Slow Walking Speed Linked with Premature Death in Kidney Disease Patients• In patients with chronic kidney disease, measures of lower extremity performance were at least 30% lower than predicted, but handgrip strength was relatively preserved. • Each 0.1-meter per second slower walking speed was linked with a 26% higher risk for death over an average three-year follow-up period. • Adding gait speed tests to laboratory tests of kidney function significantly improved the prediction of three-year mortality. 60 million people globally have chronic kidney disease. |
Embargo expired: 4/18/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 4/12/2013 8:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Why Do People with Apple-Shaped Bodies Have an Increased Risk of Kidney Disease?• People with apple-shaped bodies tend to have lower kidney function, lower kidney blood flow, and higher blood pressure within the kidneys than people with pear-shaped bodies. • The findings may help explain why people with apple-shaped bodies are more likely than those with pear-shaped bodies to develop kidney disease. |
Embargo expired: 4/11/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 4/5/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Take A Kidney Transplant Now Or Wait For A Better One? Johns Hopkins Researchers Create Web-Based ‘Decision’ ToolJohns Hopkins scientists have created a free, Web-based tool to help patients decide whether it's best to accept an immediately available, but less-than-ideal deceased donor kidney for transplant, or wait for a healthier one in the future. |
Released: 4/9/2013 2:10 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Medicine |
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Overweight Starting in Early Adulthood Linked with Kidney Disease in Older Age• Individuals who are overweight starting in early adulthood are twice as likely to have chronic kidney disease at age 60 to 64 years than those who are not overweight. • Larger waist-to-hip ratios (“apple-shaped” bodies) during middle age are also linked with chronic kidney disease at age 60 to 64 years. |
Embargo expired: 4/4/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 3/28/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |